Coin-controlled apparatus.



Patented Mar. I3, 1900.

' I I VE/VTOH WyMePer/"en U. "PERRIE B. COIN CONTROLLED APPARATUS. (Application filed' Sept. 29, 1839;)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

ULYSSE PERRIER, OF. NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE GENERAL AUTOMATIC DELIVERY COMPANY, OF

SAME PLACE.

COIN-CONTROLLED APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part; of Letters Patent No. 645,234, dated March 13, 1900. Application filed heptember 29, 1899. Serial No. 732,012. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ULYSSE Pnnnrna'a citizen of the Republic of Switzerland, residing at New York, (Brooklyn,) county of Kings, State of New York, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Controlled Apparatus, of which the following is 'a'full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to coin-controlled apparatus; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of the operating parts hereinafter described.

The main object of my invention is to secure a simple, effective, com pact, and durable mechanism whereby at the proper time and by the use of a suitable coin the apparatus may be operated by the movement of a suitable operating part.

The invention is applicable to coin-controlled machines irrespective of the purpose for which they are employed. machines are used for vending articles of merchandise, others for automatic-playing instruments, others for picture-machines, and others for a further variety of purposes too numerous to refer to in full.

In coin-controlled mechanism it is essential that the machine should be capable of detecting and rejecting as far as possible fraudulent pieces or dummies employed in an attempt to work the machine. These dummies are sometimes in the form of washers, pasteboard disks, leaden slugs, thin metal pieces, and irregular-outlined pieces, of a size capable of being inserted into the receiving-slot. By the present apparatus attempts to operate the vending-machine by the use of such pieces will be unsuccessful.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lies a longitudinal sectional view .of that portion of a vending-machine carrying my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view, the parts being in a different position. Fig. 3 is a side elevation, the parts being in stillanother position. Fig. 4. is a plan View of the parts as they appear in the position as shown in Fig. 2, the top of the casing and the coin-chute being removed. Fig. 5 is an end view of Fig. 1, the coin being shown in dotted outline. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the operating part.

In Fig. 1 of the drawings the parts are ar- Some of these ranged in the position in which they are nor mally and with a coin of suitable denomination in place. In Fig. 2 the operating part is shown as advanced to Where it has engaged and advanced the coin and is about to eject the latter, and Fig. 3 shows the position of the parts at the extreme inward excursion of the operating part.

A is a portion of a casing or framework suit= able to inclose the controlling mechanism.

' B is a coin-chute preferably having internal dimensions approximately the size of the diam'etrical cross section of a coin of the proper denomination, more importance being attached to the narrower dimensions for the purpose of preventing a coin or dummy of greater thickness than the proper coin being inserted. By this provision the locking apparatus is only required to reject coins or dummies of less than the necessary thickness.

C is' an operating part which in the draw ings is shown in the form of a slide. A portion of the operating part projects out-side of the casing A, so that it may be engaged by the hand of the operator. I p v D is the base portion of the frame, upon which the slide portion C of the operating part is supported. To prevent the vertical displacement of the operating part, Various means may be provided--for example, the edges of the slide 0 may project underneath overhanging edges D D of the base D.

C is a shoveled nose inclined toward the inner end of the operating part.

C is a pin toward the inner end of the operating part.

C is a second incline which may be formed upon the end of projection C of the operating part. This projection C is shaved off on one side to pass pin F hereinafter described. The rear portion of the projection C may also be inclined, if desired, as at C". The pin C may be longitudinally ad justable-for example, by means of a set-screw C or otherwise. I preferably provide a spring E, by means of which the operating part 0 may be retracted, as shown in Fig. 1, although, if desired, the retraction may be accomplished manually.

F is a second slide supporting the frame by which the merchandise is ejected when the machine is employed as a vending apparatus.

For illustrative purposes the merchandiseejector is shown with a forward projection F, which may be successively thrust under or against the lowermost of-a stack of articles to be vended-for example, chewing-gum-the arrangement of which articles is too well knownto require detailed description. sufficient to say that each package may be supported one upon another and induced by gravity to move downward-when the lowermost one is pushed away-for example, by a projection, such as F. The slide F of the merchandise-ejector may have its lower edges extended under the aforesaid overhanging edges D D of the base to give certainty of alinement and prevent displacement. In the drawings the slide F is shown as resting upon the top of the slide 0. At the opposite sides of the slide F are extensions F Fiend oneof these extensions may pivotally support, as atf,-a gate F which in turn carries a (101. wardly-projecting bearing-pin F Between the projections F and F it is preferred to form a circular'depression corresponding approximately to the shape of the proper coin. Upon the surface of this circular depression are located bearing devices F F. Upon the rear of the gate F is formed an inclined plane or surface F, which may, if desired, correspond approximately to the direction of the incline C I G G are springs of any suitable kind, so mounted asto bearwith the desired pressure against the slide F, for example, as shown in Fig. 1, wherein it will be seen that a nose G is projected into adepression F'", which depression may be provided to secure a firmer It will thus be seen that as long as the springs.

' bear inv said depressions F they will prevent the. independent operation of the gate-carrying slide F, but will not interfere with the free movement of the operating part G and its slide 0. The inward and outward movement of the slide 0' will cause the raised projection C to pass under the gate F which latter will be freelyraised and lowered thereby. F and O, a coin of a suitable denomination is insertedinto a chute B, which directs it substantially into the position indicated in Fig. 1, although if said coin inclines rearwardly and rests upon the pin 0 it matters not. The pins F F stand in front of the coin until said coin is ejected. place, as indicated, the forward movement of the operating part 0 will cause the pin C to bear centrally against the near side of the coin, while the pins F and F F will bear against the opposite side of the coin near its periphery, said pins F and F F being such a distance apart as to prevent the tilting of It islVhen it is desired to couple the slides When a coin is inv said coin. nation, the adjustment of the pin 0 is-such that the inclined face C of the operating part will have only just contacted with the inclined face F of the gate F Hence a further forward movement of the operating part will by the presence of the coin held asabove stated advance themerchandise-ejector F"; By the presence of the coin, therefore, the two slides C and F are so coupled together that they will advance simultaneously to a point where the merchandise shall have been ejected, at or about which instant the coin is ejected in the following manner: D is a raised projection having an inclined surface'D After the lower edge of the coin has engaged the incline of the projection D and theformer is still further advanced it will ride lip/the incline D -andby the same lee-moved uwardly in thecirculardepression between the arms F F until its lower edgebeoomes freed-from thepins. F F at-whieh instant. by further advance movement of the part 0 the coin is pushed over the inneredge of the inclined projection D, from whence it may drop by gravity into a suitable" receptacle not neces sary to show. The apparatus havingthns performed its duty, the parts may be retracted.

Sincethatportion of the operating part0 that is above the slide 0 projects through a slot in the slide F, the said portion-of the operatin g part will engage the shoulder at the-rear end. of said slot and will restore the slide F to its normal position. (Shown in Fig. 1.) 7

It will be seenthatin the event an attempt is made to workthe-machine by meansofa fraudulent piece-for example, a washer and merchandise-ejector in the meantime re-- maining still, since the washer is not a proper device to act as a coupling medium between.

slides O and F.

In the event a lead slug of approximately the size of a suitable coin is employed the sharp points of one or more of the bearing pins will cut intothe soft metal-of the slugv before the vending-slide is advanced, the latter being held back by theengagementof they springs G or their equivalent. This cutting, into the slug permits the operating part to advance to a'point whereincline 0 will raise the gate F in the manner previously described-,:

whereupon the leaden slug will be ejected in the same manner as the washer, since the bearing-point F will be removed. The same result will follow an attempted fraudulent It the coin is of proper den0mioperation of the machine by means of a disk of any soft material-for example, a paper disk.

If an attempt is made to operate the machine by means of a dummy of an outline not circular, such a dummy will not properly engage with the bearing-pins F -F F which are preferably arranged so as to project only slightly into a perfectly formed are, and

hence no proper bearing will be secured upon the far side of the coin. Therefore the advance of the operating part will deflect or tilt the fraudulent piece and eject it without advancing the gate carrying devices and the merchandise-ejector.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that if an attempt is made to operate the machine with a piece of less than the proper thickness the incline C will rub against the inolineF sufliciently to raise the gate F and thus remove the bearing E, which when removed permits the thin slug to meet the fate of the leaden disk.

As to pieces of greater thickness than the coin of the proper size, no attention need be paid, since the opening in the chuteB is not sufficiently large to permit the same being passed into the machine.

For convenience of expression I may call those portions of the device which carry the gate F the gate-carrier. I may also refer to the bearing-pins or their equivalents as the bearing-points or bearing devices.

As a variety of changes may be made from the specific apparatus shown anddescribed, I desire to have it understood that the follow ing claims are intended to cover and include all such alterations and changes as may be fairly considered to be within the spirit and scope of this invention.

What I claim is 1. In a coin-controlled apparatus, a movable operating part, a carrier, a gate on said carrier, a plurality of bearing-points on said carrier and gate, a bearing-point on said operating part and means to operate said gate.

2. In a coin-controlled apparatus, a movable operating part, a carrier, a gate on said carrier, a plurality of bearing-points on said carrier and gate, a bearing-point on said operating part and means carried by said operating part to operate said gate.

3. In a coin-controlled apparatus, a movable operating part, an incline thereon, a carrier, a gate on said carrier, an incline on said gate to be engaged by said first-mentioned incline, a plurality of bearing points on said carrier and gate, and a bearing-point on said operating part.

4. In a coin-controlled apparatus, a movable operating part, a carrier, a gate on said carrier, a plurality of bearing-points on said carrier and gate, and a bearing-point on said operating part intermediate of the bearingpoints on the gate-carrier and gate.

5. In a coin-controlled apparatus, a movableoperating part, a carrier, a gate thereon, means carried by the operating part to move said gate, bearing-points to engage a coin and means to dislodge said coin from engagement with said bearing-points after the carrier has been advanced.

6. In a coin-controlled apparatus, a movable operating part, a carrier, a gate thereon, means carried by the operating part to move said gate, bearing-points to engage opposite sides of the coin, and an incline in the path of said coin to dislodge said coin from en-v gagement with a bearing-point on one side thereof after the carrier has been advanced.

7. In a coin-controlled apparatus, a movable opera'ting' part, a carrier, means to hold said gate-carrier in a normally-retracted position, a gate on said carrier, bearing-points on said gate and carrier and operating part to engage a coin of the proper denomination and cause the advance of said carrier.

8. In a coin-controlled apparatus, a movable operating part, a slide therefor, asecond slide, bearing devices carried by said second slide to engage one side of a coin, means carried by the operating part to engage the other side of a coin, and means whereby the position of one or more of said bearing devices shall be moved out of engagement with a piece other than a coin of suitable denomination.

9. In a coin-controlled apparatus, a movable operating part, a carrier, means for detachably engaging said gate-carrier in its retracted position, a gate on said carrier, bearing-points carried by said carrier, a pin carried by said gate, a bearing-pin carried by said ICO operating part and means whereby the gate I may be moved by the operating part.

10. In a coin-controlled apparatus, a movable operating part, a carrier, a gate carried thereby, bearing-points on said carrier and gate, means for detachably holding said carrier in the retracted position, a bearing-point carried by said operating part, and means to eject a coin by freeing it from engagement with one or more of said bearing-points after the carrier has been advanced.

Signed at New York, N. Y., this 27th day of September, 1899.

ULYSSE PERRIER.

Witnesses:

R. C. MITCHELL, L. VREELAND. 

